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markedThemesareboundtocauseuneasinessofhisaudiences.③InObama’sspeeches,threekindsofthematisingstructuresappearinObama’sspeeches.Theyarethematicequative,predicatedThemeandpreposedTheme.Amongthem,themostcommonthematisingstructureisthematicequative,whichcanmaketheaudiencesbetterunderstand.Theappearanceoftheothertwoislessthanthefirstoneandbothofthemaremostlyusedtoemphasize.④AmongthreeelementswhichformtheexperientialpartofaTheme,participantappearsmost,circumstancethesecondandprocessthelast.Processasexperientialelementisalwaysusedtoappealwhileparticipantandcircumstanceareusedtostate.Theirdifferentrolesdecidetheirdifferentdistributions.⑤InObama’sspeeches,sevenpatternsofthematicprogressionareidentified.Amongthem,themostusedpatternsofTPareTPwithconstantTheme,simplelinearpatternandemptythematicprogression.ObamausuallyusesthematicpatternwithconstantThemetodescribecommonpeople,whichisaveryeffectivewaytomovehisaudiences.Simplelinearpatternisfrequentlyusedtofitthemodeofpeople’sthinkingtoensuretheirbetterunderstanding.Emptypatternusuallyprovidesdetailedexamples.Crossingthematicprogression,summarizingthematicpattern,splitRhemepatternaretheleastusedpatternsfortheirownnature.BasedontheconclusiondrawnfromObama’sspeeches,wecanseetheanalysisofthematicstructureandpatternsofTPisveryusefulforanalyzingthespeeches.Thewholethesisincludessixchapters.Thefirstchapterintroducesthewholethesis.Thesecondchapterreviewstheresearchanddocumentonthehistoryofthematictheoryandgivesabriefintroductiontopoliticalspeeches.Thethirdchapterrevealsthetheoreticalframeworkofthisthesis.ThefourthchaptermakesananalysisonthethematicstructureinthespeechesofObama.ThefifthchaptermakesananalysisonthepatternsofTPofspeechesofObama.Thesixthchapteristheconclusionofthewholethesis.Keywords:thematicstructurethematicprogressionspeechesofObamaVListofFiguresFigure2.1:DiagramofDanes’simplelinearpattern.14Figure2.2:DiagramofDanes’constantThemepattern.14Figure2.3:DiagramofDanes’derivedThemepattern.15Figure2.4:DiagramofDanes’splitRhemepa